Composed by Prof. Brad Mehldau
Prof. Brad Mehldau (p)Music Production by Prof. Daniel Dettwiler
Filmed by Simon Schwab at the Jazzcampus Recording Studio
Production Supervised by Prof. Daniel Dettwyler© Jazzcampus Basel
Musiktudium in Basel / Study in Basel: fhnw.ch
Veranstaltungen / events: musik-akademie.ch
Konzert-Aufnahmen / concert recordings: musik-akademie.ch
Fans watching #NFL football on Sunday discovered #cocainebear delivering a marketing win for the anticipated (?) film. #ChiefsKingdom #RuleTheJungle #FlyEaglesFly #FTTB #TheLastOfUs #FireCountry And don’t forget to vote in our Cocaine Bear poll.https://t.co/1Y8FCFXn96
— The Frank Torres Report (@ftrtoday) January 30, 2023
Lots of folks saying Don Jr. Is the real cocaine bear…
Another pro skier dies while working. *shudder*
Beloved South Lake Tahoe Skier Kyle Smaine Killed in Avalanche in Japan
| Mountain Gazette
31 years old.
This is how fascism spreads in a corrupt system.
Inside The Online Community Where Home-Schoolers Learn How To Turn Their Kids Into ‘Wonderful Nazis’ | HuffPost Latest Newshttps://t.co/lAHV8a8WVc pic.twitter.com/qEZb6QOE0w— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 30, 2023
My boss texted me today while I was skiing saying he’s back in the U.S. and that Japan skiing is amazing.
Details and colors are quite different but this somehow reminds me of our hillside home in Iruma Japan in the late 50s. Same atmosphere, people with umbrellas, lush vegetation. Even the car entering a tunnel-like forest road just left of the yellow building has a counterpart in my memory. The dirt road ran for another 3 or 4 houses then seemed to disappear into the woods to our left (facing forward). I knew there was a factory that made rubber balloons at the other end, but I never went there except with my dad. It is amazing how vivid these memories are sometimes.
This is incredible Northeast india 😍
Location is MG Market, Gangtok, Sikkimhttps://t.co/lv5SWKI0Ql pic.twitter.com/R3kNzB0AET— Go Arunachal Pradesh (@GoArunachal_) January 28, 2023
Since Mlon Eusk exists to destroy everything I love, I’m just sitting here hoping he never discovers Tweetdeck.
(If you snitch tag him on this, I will make sure you’re reincarnated as one of his kids.)— L O L G O P (@LOLGOP) January 30, 2023
re: #8 teleskiguy
If TweetDeck stops working that will be the last day I use Twitter.
TweetDeck is the only way that Twitter is even tolerable at this point. The main site and the mobile app are complete garbage. I’ve noticed that the power users I follow, who have tweeted hundreds of thousands of times over a decade or more, are saying that the main site is just an unworkable piece of shit and that neonazis are routinely injected into the TL.
The fact that TweetDeck is still around today is rather astonishing considering the fascist tendencies of Twitter’s owner. TweetDeck has no ads, is a chronological TL, and you can have live updates of users and hashtags.
TweetDeck is the only way I can tolerate the site anymore, the main site and mobile app is complete garbage now.
— Elon Musk Blows Goats (@ballfootski) January 27, 2023
Ok, I’m annoyed that i can’t boost something unless I’m on that server:
re: #11 teleskiguy
TweetDeck is the only way that Twitter is even tolerable at this point. The main site and the mobile app are complete garbage. I’ve noticed that the power users I follow, who have tweeted hundreds of thousands of times over a decade or more, are saying that the main site is just an unworkable piece of shit and that neonazis are routinely injected into the TL.
The fact that TweetDeck is still around today is rather astonishing considering the fascist tendencies of Twitter’s owner. TweetDeck has no ads, is a chronological TL, and you can have live updates of users and hashtags.
There’s a new version being beta tested that’s absolutely horrible. Like the web interface in every column. Slower than shit. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Musk suddenly find out about it and just rush it out even though it’s very, very bad.
— Sheryl Post (@ProudDoggieMom) January 30, 2023
re: #5 teleskiguy
My boss texted me today while I was skiing saying he’s back in the U.S. and that Japan skiing is amazing.
Where did he go? I’m not a skilled skier, but I was taken to several places when I lived in northern Honshu.
re: #18 Barefoot Grin
Where did he go? I’m not a skilled skier, but I was taken to several places when I lived in northern Honshu.
I’m not sure. I do know he took the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Nagano and kept going from there. I see him tomorrow afternoon and I’m super curious as well.
re: #20 teleskiguy
I’m not sure. I do know he took the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Nagano and kept going from there. I see him tomorrow afternoon and I’m super curious as well.
Cool. I was taken to Nagano a couple of times to climb mountains in August, but never for skiing. The place where I hit powder (which was not good for me as an unskilled skier) was Shizukuishi a bit farther north.
— Darrell Arts (COMMISSIONS OPEN) 🇺🇸 (@darrell_arts) January 29, 2023
re: #14 Belafon
Ok, I’m annoyed that i can’t boost something unless I’m on that server:
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Sure you can.
Web browser interface:
Put the url in the search box as if you wanted to follow the user (you can but don’t have to to boost). Click on his name, it’ll come up in the far right column. scroll down to the post & boost away.
I just did that to the post in your post here.
I have no skin in the game and I don’t give a shit about anything American football related. But this is funny. Barstool Sports King Douche gets owned by an 82-year-old skyscraper.
pic.twitter.com/uNJ8KEHZ48 https://t.co/asLbRK7CAR
— Empire State Building (@EmpireStateBldg) January 29, 2023
re: #22 gocart mozart
I am trying to figure out how to make that my phone’s lock screen.
Imagine being at this concert
Teenagers in 1969 gather around to enjoy some Led Zeppelin.
They had NO idea what they were in for……….. 😮🥁🎸 pic.twitter.com/pP4NU0mm2C— Kevin Smith (@Global_Smith) January 28, 2023
re: #29 gocart mozart
Imagine being at this concert
Why would anyone think they had no idea? I mean, there had been the Yardbirds & so many others before them. Nothing there that was new really, just well performed and, maybe, a little louder.
Just about 2 minutes left in regulation and a tied score. Excellent! Wish the earlier game had been like this too.
re: #32 teleskiguy
Hah!
Your nominee is definitely much more super.
re: #32 teleskiguy
I smoke 250 mg per day. In high school we rolled a 1 ounce joint in a Big Bamboo rolling paper from the Cheech and Chong album. 20 people smoked it in 8 minutes because the bell rung and we had 5 minutes to get to class, we were late.
This is good.https://t.co/q8ElpM7HS5 pic.twitter.com/vKij57GKKs
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) January 28, 2023
re: #9 Charles Johnson
If TweetDeck stops working that will be the last day I use Twitter.
Same here.
re: #14 Belafon
A Children’s Biography About Michelle Obama Among The Books Texas Parents Want To Ban (Essence, February 3, 2022)
All conservatives lie. The book does no such thing.
An NBC investigation uncovered “an unprecedented effort by parents and conservative politicians in Texas to ban books dealing with race, sexuality and gender from schools…Hundreds of titles have been pulled from libraries across the state for review, sometimes over the objections of school librarians…fac[ing] increasingly hostile work environments and mounting pressure to preemptively pull books that might draw complaints.”
Among them is a children’s biography of Michelle Obama. A parent accused the book of making it seem that “if you sound like a white girl you should be ashamed of yourself.”
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re: #40 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A Children’s Biography About Michelle Obama Among The Books Texas Parents Want To Ban (Essence, February 3, 2022)
All conservatives lie. The book does no such thing.
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Oh, these twits are just seeing her and comparing themselves to her.
OF COURSE they’re feeling ashamed of themselves.
I made hummus from scratch. Super tasty. Better than the store.
The coldest night of this freeze will be tomorrow, then it will finally warm up a bit.
Tonight
Snow likely, mainly before 11pm. Cloudy, with a low around -6. Wind chill values between -10 and -15. North wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.
Monday
Partly sunny, with a high near 12. Wind chill values between -5 and -15. Light and variable wind becoming south southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around -9. Wind chill values between -15 and -25. West wind around 5 mph.
Tuesday
Sunny, with a high near 28. Wind chill values between -15 and -25. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 3. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
forecast.weather.gov
We have just enough Democratic votes in the Unicameral to fight off the bill.
A perfect explainer for what we’ve been talking about for the past few days in the legislature, regarding our abortion ban being sent to the wrong committee.
All of these things have consequences for the health of Nebraskans, and for criminal exposure to doctors. #NELeg https://t.co/dBPQHerbVI— Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) January 29, 2023
re: #42 BigPapa
I made hummus from scratch. Super tasty. Better than the store.
I made fresh hummus using a Robo Coupe at a golf course I used to work at. Good shit.
Sad news.
Lisa Loring, Original Wednesday Addams, Dies at 64
Loring’s passing was reported by her close friend Laurie Jacobson on Facebook Sunday. Jacobson reported, “It is with great sadness that I report the death of our friend, Lisa Loring. 4 Days ago she suffered a massive stroke brought on by smoking and high blood pressure. She had been on life support for 3 days. Yesterday, her family made the difficult decision to remove it and she passed last night. She is embedded in the tapestry that is pop culture and in our hearts always as Wednesday Addams.”
lol
“Let’s talk about #atheism over lunch. Where do you want to go?”
Me: pic.twitter.com/deArf4V6gg— 🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭 (@LinuxGal) January 28, 2023
Trump’s former Deputy Ass’t. Sec’y. of Defense.
There is no biblical command to “eliminate” poverty.
Jesus makes the opposite very clear, he says, “the poor you will always have with you.” Matthew 26: 11
In fact, efforts to eliminate poverty are utopian enterprises that often result in mass death. https://t.co/GcI6uTZkWP— William Wolfe 🇺🇸 (@William_E_Wolfe) January 27, 2023
I hope Onle Skum has his pants sued off.
#Tesla ‘spontaneously’ caught fire on California highway: officials https://t.co/t0PUUhKPB1
— KTLA (@KTLA) January 30, 2023
Here’s that Texas high school student being quoted on mastodon:
Here is the video of the Granbury ISD student quoted above (again, hat tip to @cjtackett ). pic.twitter.com/SiMpPDrtqq
— Ray [REDACTED] (@RayRedacted) January 25, 2022
Fascinating how many Christians will crawl out of the woodwork to demand that poverty is actually good
— Lo Alecha Ligma (@Jewthulhu) January 29, 2023
The rising cost of living doesn’t hit all Americans equally. Yet the benchmark figure for charting the rising cost of living excludes people in rural areas. https://t.co/7IUeHeT2XQ
— Star-Herald (@sbstarherald) January 29, 2023
But the main indicator of inflation, the consumer price index, is compiled by looking at the changes in price specifically urban Americans pay for a set basket of goods. Those living in rural America are not surveyed.
As economists who study rural America, we believe this poses a problem: People living outside America’s cities represent 14% of the U.S. population, or around 46 million people. They are likely to face different financial pressures and have different consumption habits than urbanites.
The fact that the Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys only urban populations for the consumer price index makes assessing rural inflation much more difficult - it may even be masking a rural-urban inflation gap.
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In 2020, about 82% of rural wages went toward expenses, said Peters. Now expenses “consume 91% of rural take-home pay.”
“Because rural households have lower incomes, household expenditures make up a greater share of the income, leaving less discretionary dollars,” Rempe said.
Discretionary income in rural Nebraska has decreased by nearly half but only 13% in urban areas. Coupled with the rising costs of goods and services, the narrower spending margins are causing many people to think twice before making a purchase. Moreover, they do not have extra money to cover emergency expenses or unexpected bills.
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re: #58 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Tell me about it. West central Illinois is hit by that rural divide.
Megyn & I were both born in Champaign, Illinois. Megyn was born there because her dad received his Ed.D (Doctor of Education), THE SAME DEGREE DR. JILL HAS, at @edILLINOIS the year after she was born.
When her dad taught at @ualbany he was called Dr. Kelly. https://t.co/wnYqK0drdY— Jason Patterson 📚📜🗜🎨 (@jason_patterson) January 30, 2023
re: #61 jaunte
Megyn Kelly is just a jealous shrew. Nothing more, nothing less.
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I’m 40. I’ve done so much cool shit in my life. Most of it happened with skis attached to my feet.
Privilege. I’ve got it.
Always find amazing stuff on You Tube when I least expect it.
This is a clip of the Lawrence Welk show from 1956 with Red Nichols and his Five Pennies. Danny Kaye played Nichols in the movie “The Five Pennies”. When Dad was a kid he said his favorite band was Nichols and his Five Pennies. Here they do three Dixieland numbers with Welk.
While the world burns…. I went walking. Point Mugu State Park - The cool thing is when the “lilac” scent from the thousands of flowers arrives at your nose. Wow! So subtle but unforgettable! On the opposite mountain side - there are thousands of these plants flowing down. In the summer you would not know how many of these shrubs are out there.
re: #61 jaunte
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Megyn’s got a very real “MY HUSBAND SAYS WOMEN SHOULDN’T BE IN THE WORKPLACE BECAUSE IT DEVALUES MEN’S WORK!!!” vibe going on there.
As the new week begins, my law firm is litigating 47 voting and election cases in 18 states: AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, IA, IL, KS, LA, NH, MT, NH, NC, NY, OH, PA, TX, and WI.
I expect new pro-voting litigation in the days, weeks, and months to come.— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) January 29, 2023
It’s only January, but this may well end up being my #mudlarking find of the year: a miraculously mostly complete Roman cup. A less common form. Now having its contents x-rayed at the Museum of London. #mudlark #archaeology #romanbritain #history pic.twitter.com/qDoGNOZ4xa
— Mud Historian (Malcolm Russell) (@MudHistorian) January 29, 2023
Word of advice if you’re wanting to commit credit card fraud at a hotel: Responding to your stolen credit card # being rejected by our system by mumbling that you’ll “call your boss” and then disappearing from the property altogether is a pretty clear sign to us that you’re scared shitless we just hit the silent alarm button and you wanna be gone before the cops show up. At least try to BS us by calling up your dealer on the phone in the lobby and make some “employee” noises before you give us your excuse and bolt.
re: #71 Targetpractice
Word of advice if you’re wanting to commit credit card fraud at a hotel: Responding to your stolen credit card # being rejected by our system by mumbling that you’ll “call your boss” and then disappearing from the property altogether is a pretty clear sign to us that you’re scared shitless we just hit the silent alarm button and you wanna be gone before the cops show up. At least try to BS us by calling up your dealer on the phone in the lobby and make some “employee” noises before you give us your excuse and bolt.
Heh, for me that’s when they usually break out the cash and say they can pay for the room that way. Yeah, even with a deposit homie, I don’t do that unless the GM is there and tells me to. I expect a little too much… traffic… in and out of those rooms.
‘Like a domestic violence situation’: Former Rep. concerned about Lindsey Graham’s Trump relationshiphttps://t.co/2p9S8hyC5M
— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 30, 2023
Lindsey is always the first in line to lick the pre-cum of a man with power. He’s a slut.
re: #72 William Lewis
Heh, for me that’s when they usually break out the cash and say they can pay for the room that way. Yeah, even with a deposit homie, I don’t do that unless the GM is there and tells me to. I expect a little too much… traffic… in and out of those rooms.
The whole issue with credit card fraud here has been a long and difficult one. When we first shifted over to our current ownership, credit card authorizations were still done through the honor system of sending a Word doc to the card holder and then comparing what they sent back to what we had in the system. That system fell apart that same winter when we started getting credit card chargebacks totaling tens of thousands of dollars monthly because the same gang of dopeheads were calling down to the desk every other day to let us know “grandma” was paying for another week.
So for a time we didn’t accept any authorizations at all, which was such a joy listening to meth junkies whine at 1am that they “have nowhere else to go!” and expecting me to just look the other way because they’ll call their “dad” and he’ll tell me the card’s totally legit. But the few real corporate clients that wanted to dump their contractors on our doorstep bitched loud enough that home office ordered us to change policy to the current one that we only accept legit corporate cards. Which led to a spat of drug addicts showing up to tell us that their “sister” had sent over a card, getting told that we only accepted corporate cards, then showing back up an hour later with an authorization from their “boss” with the same exact card info.
That shit came to a stop when I spent one weekend going through several authorization forms of incoming guests and caught that they were basically duplicates of each other with “corporate” addresses that were home addresses or PO box numbers with a “boss” who was an 80 year old retiree living on the other side of the state from the address. After I clued in my coworkers to start actually Googling addresses and names, we started seeing what we get now with the more extensive credit card authorization system: People showing up to check in, getting told that their cards aren’t going through, their whining to us about how the card’s good and their “boss” is having “issues” with the new system, and then proceeding to disappear completely to “get it fixed.”
tl;dr: Drug users are a fearful and superstitious lot who are apt to run the moment they realize they’re caught.
I fucking hated this song and still do.
re: #77 Captain Ron
Like when John Belushi came down the stairs in Animal House and broke that asshole’s guitar type hate.
OK this was a surprise in my selections on youtube. Janis Ian & Tommy Emmanuel.
‘She came down the yellow mountain, be she wasn’t down for the yellow snow’
re: #81 William Lewis
That … thing … is grounds for 15 reds and a bottle of wine.
I had a bad experience with reds.
re: #82 TedStriker
I like it… am I a bad person?
*ducks*
No.
Just don’t expect me to ever listen to it again willingly.
re: #84 Captain Ron
I had a bad experience with reds.
It’s like I told the Coast Guard Recruiter, “Give me a list of drugs and I’ll tell you which ones I haven’t taken because it’s probably shorter.”
Here’s a thought…
Rick Blaine, of Casablanca, is a Neutral Good Paladin as D&D puts it. Law? Chaos? Who cares? Good? That’s all that really matters.
The word I generally use for a specific vowel combination has unexpectedly paid off today.
Wordle 590 2/6
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Always a positive sign when the first thing you’re asked when you walk up on a couple having a screaming match is “Did you call the cops?”
re: #90 Nyet
The word I generally use for a specific vowel combination has unexpectedly paid off today.
Wordle 590 2/6
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Monday’s was 3 for me.. much improved over Sunday’s 5
Wordle 590 3/6
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
re: #91 Targetpractice
Always a positive sign when the first thing you’re asked when you walk up on a couple having a screaming match is “Did you call the cops?”
Oy. On a Sunday night????
re: #90 Nyet
I’ve googled and apparently that same word was an answer in December too.
re: #94 Nyet
I’ve googled and apparently that same word was an answer in December too.
???? I don’t see it in the past solutions in the following list : wordfinder.yourdictionary.com
re: #93 William Lewis
Oy. On a Sunday night????
Ayep. These two have been an absolute pain for weeks now. 2-3 weeks ago it was yelling in the room with her telling me to have him tossed out of the hotel and his refusing to go because her mom had given him permission to be there. The next week I came back after my days off to hear he’d been hauled off to jail after fighting with about five cops and being hauled off like a piece of luggage. Now they’re standing outside in the rain and having another loud argument that I’ve already received complaints about.
Figuring I’m gonna have to recommend to the GM having her and her mom kicked to the curb tomorrow because they’ve already received several noise complaints and yet her little ass can’t stop screaming anytime she’s within earshot of her beau.
Hope this didn’t involve teleski’s boss:
Nagano - Police said Monday they found two men who had been missing on a 2,100-meter-high mountain in Nagano Prefecture after they were caught in an avalanche while backcountry skiing the previous day.
The men were found in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest, according to police.
The two skiers were among a total of 13 people in three groups, all foreign nationals, who were outside of patrolled areas near the Tsugaike Mountain Resort in the village of Otari when the avalanche occurred Sunday, police said. The two men were believed left unconscious, while the 11 others descended the mountain safely.
In total, five people were caught up in the avalanche, with three able to escape earlier. One of the skiers who was initially reported by local rescuers as having broken an arm, actually suffered a dislocated right shoulder, police said.
According to police, the five people consisted of a group of two Australians and a person whose nationality is unknown and a group of two Americans. The nationality of the two men who were rescued was not immediately clear.
Authorities were unable to immediately begin their search on Sunday due to weather conditions and other factors. The avalanche occurred at around 2:30 p.m. in the backcountry terrain.
An avalanche advisory had been issued for the northern Nagano region, including the village.
The Meteorological Agency said the region had received heavy snowfall over the past few days and had warned of a risk of “surface avalanches” due to an unstable snowpack.
re: #141 The Ghost of a Flea
Peelian principles existed alongside militarized colonialist policing, and I’d argue that the latter explains more about modern cops than the former.
Before helping set up the Met and formulating at least the beginnings of the peelian principles Peel had been involved in the creation of the Royal Irish Constabulary, the ancestor of all British colonial police forces.
Maybe his experience with that informed the explicitly civilian nature of the Met (or maybe he was a racist who thought true Englishmen needed something different than mere colonials).
Watching Casablanca.
Such an exquisite movie.
Today was 45F, tonight is going to be 35. That’s like freezing to a Californian.
Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with missile strike (BBC, yesterday)
Boris Johnson has said Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike in an “extraordinary” phone call in the run-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The then-prime minister said Mr Putin told him it “would only take a minute”.
Mr Johnson said the comment was made after he warned the war would be an “utter catastrophe” during a “very long” call in February 2022.
Details of the exchange are revealed in a BBC documentary, examining Mr Putin’s interactions with world leaders.
Mr Johnson warned Mr Putin that invading Ukraine would lead to Western sanctions and more Nato troops on Russia’s borders.
He also tried to deter Russian military action by telling Mr Putin that Ukraine would not join Nato “for the foreseeable future”.
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re: #3 teleskiguy
Another pro skier dies while working. *shudder*
Beloved South Lake Tahoe Skier Kyle Smaine Killed in Avalanche in Japan
| Mountain Gazette31 years old.
was it the vaccine?
re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There is no biblical command to “eliminate” poverty.
No, but there is a clear Biblical command to help the poor.
re: #73 Captain Ron
Lindsey is always the first in line to lick the pre-cum of a man with power. He’s a slut.
or DT has the goods on him and his underage butt-boys
re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
No, but there is a clear Biblical command to help the poor.
The guy is deflecting every time someone brings up an Old Testament admonition to care for the poor, but there is also the New Testament words in the Gospels, such as:
Mark 10:21—21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me. (KJV)
re: #77 Captain Ron
it’s right up there Alan O’Day’s Undercover Angel, Debbie Boone’s You Light Up My Life, the Disco Bee Gee’s and almost anything done by Barry Manilow….
It’s not to say that the 70’s didn’t have some good stuff, after all, you had Badfinger, The Eagles, Raspberries, ELO, The Cars, Boston etc… but like every decade, there was some stuff out there and you wondered aloud, who the hell was buying this crap?
re: #107 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
seems like most Evangelicals kind of stopped reading after the begatting was done, well before the New Tesrament…..
‘Elon Musk has made me embarrassed to drive my Tesla now’ Fast Company, yesterday)
When Anne Marie Squeo received her fiery red Tesla sports utility vehicle in 2020, the 55-year-old marketing and communications professional felt like she had joined a special “club” of people who were doing something to help the environment, while still driving with style.
But last year, as Tesla boss Elon Musk shared right-wing conspiracy theories on Twitter, posted a picture of guns by his bedside, and proposed terms to resolve the war in Ukraine that were adamantly rejected by many of the country’s top leaders, Anne Marie’s satisfaction gave way to shame.
“It’s been very depressing, and sometimes embarrassing to be driving this car around,” says Anne Marie, a former journalist who lives in Connecticut and wrote an article about her discomfort. “I wondered if people were making a judgement about me that I wasn’t looking for.”
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re: #99 William Lewis
Watching Casablanca.
Such an exquisite movie.
Ingrid Bergman riding through Paris in a sportscar with the warm wind in her hair.
No woman has looked better on screen than she did in that scene.
re: #108 piratedan
it’s right up there Alan O’Day’s Undercover Angel, Debbie Boone’s You Light Up My Life, the Disco Bee Gee’s and almost anything done by Barry Manilow….
It’s not to say that the 70’s didn’t have some good stuff, after all, you had Badfinger, The Eagles, Raspberries, ELO, The Cars, Boston etc… but like every decade, there was some stuff out there and you wondered aloud, who the hell was buying this crap?
You take that back about Barry Manilow. I was buying that “crap.”
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re: #108 piratedan
it’s right up there Alan O’Day’s Undercover Angel, Debbie Boone’s You Light Up My Life, the Disco Bee Gee’s and almost anything done by Barry Manilow….
It’s not to say that the 70’s didn’t have some good stuff, after all, you had Badfinger, The Eagles, Raspberries, ELO, The Cars, Boston etc… but like every decade, there was some stuff out there and you wondered aloud, who the hell was buying this crap?
And most of the Europop trash coming out in the 70’s makes even those songs seem brilliant.
re: #110 piratedan
seems like most Evangelicals kind of stopped reading after the begatting was done, well before the New Tesrament…..
no, they just read selectively, like “He who does not work, shall not eat” without the surrounding context about those Christians who, living communally, claimed to support the cause but contributed nothing of value.
re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And most of the Europop trash coming out in the 70’s makes even those songs seem brilliant.
Almost anything coming out of the Eurovision Song Contest (except Abba).
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re: #117 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Almost anything coming out of the Eurovision Song Contest (except Abba).
I am not a big Will Ferrel fan, but
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is a fucking brilliant piss-take on Eurovision
Good luck finding this.
Mining giant Rio Tinto says it is working with authorities to try to find a radioactive capsule that went missing in Western Australia this month.
“We recognise this is clearly very concerning and are sorry for the alarm it has caused,” the firm told the BBC.
The casing contains a small quantity of radioactive Caesium-137, which could cause serious illness if touched.
It was lost between the town of Newman and the city of Perth, a distance of roughly 1,400km (870 miles).
“As well as fully supporting the relevant authorities, we have launched our own investigation to understand how the capsule was lost in transit,” Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore chief executive Simon Trott said in a statement.
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The object is 6mm in diameter and 8mm thick.
Mining giant ‘sorry’ over lost radioactive capsule in Australia (BBC, half an hour ago)
re: #88 William Lewis
Here’s a thought…
Rick Blaine, of Casablanca, is a Neutral Good Paladin as D&D puts it. Law? Chaos? Who cares? Good? That’s all that really matters.
I think Rick is a much more complex character than a simple 3x3 grid is going to describe. Even with tendencies defined in the blocks of the grid.
For example, how does it really describe how a particular song (and woman) triggers him to act very uncharacteristically as compared to his current circumstances?
re: #113 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
to each their own, I could be as sentimental and romantic as the next guy, but my speed was more Firefall’s Just Remember I Love You and England Dan and John Ford Coley’s I Really Love To See You Tonight or even Styx’s Lady.
Nebraska state law requires to be an incorporated city (village), the town must have at least one hundred people.
The 2020 Census has our town’s population dropping from 128 to 95 now. Officially, we cannot be legally a village now.
However, state law does provide an exception, in that if the town can fulfil all the requirements that the state puts on it, then the town may remain incorporated (which is why our state has an incorporated village with a population of 1).
I presume this will come up soon at a village board meeting, when the state is done processing all the new population data. We currently fulfil all the requirements of a village, so hopefully this shouldn’t be too hard to keep our incorporated status (and the millions of dollars in our village bank accounts).
Nice birbie to start the week. Heading into the office. Will be setting up our Super Bowl Squares game that also raises money for a local (no-kill) animal shelter. Looks as if this is going to be a winter without snow. We’ve been in this situation before and had surprise March storms (including the 1993 blizzard). So we’ll see. Have a great week everyone!
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re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Nebraska state law requires to be an incorporated city (village), the town must have at least one hundred people.
Invite five asylum seekers from Central America to live there, problem solved…
re: #124 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Invite five asylum seekers from Central America to live there, problem solved…
By percentage of population, Nebraska has the most asylum seekers.
We had one, but she died in December (she was from Cuba).
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
By percentage of population, Nebraska has the most asylum seekers.
We had one, but she died in December (she was from Cuba).
Interesting and unexpected to hear.
It’s very nearly tomorrow again and Tomorrow’s Wordle is not merely Today’s Wordle this time, but on the brink of becoming Yesterday’s Wordle.
At least it has feathers.
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SibData: 3,3,5,6,6 - talk about polarising.
My wife just made these for breakfast. Contrary to the name, they have no sugar.
Sausage, Egg, and Cheese Breakfast Cookies (All Recipies)
They are very good. They have one bad review because the reviewer didn’t like the name “cookie.”
nothing wrong with cookies for breakfast. gonna make me a chocolate chip omelet…
re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Interesting and unexpected to hear.
Because of this, in our area (despite it being very rural) we have Cambodian, Vietnamese, Greek, Thai, Japanese, Indian, and Chinese restaurants, along with ethnic food shops. (We also have two English fish-and-chip joints but I don’t know if that counts as “ethnic food.”)
Over on the east side of the state, there are numerous Polish and Czech businesses.
Nebraska has the largest “Polish colony” (descendents of immigrants) of any state.
The Polish Heritage Center was incorporated in 1997 in an effort to preserve the ancestral language, culture and traditions of one of the most significant immigrant groups to settle in Nebraska. The small village of Ashton, where the Center is located was part of a unique planned community for early Polish immigrants. The Polish Roman Catholic Union of America established Polish Colonies throughout the United States. Central Nebraska was one of their successful efforts. Since the late 1800’s, communities such as Farwell, Ashton, Paplin and Loup City have been the epicenter from which their descendantshave spread out across the nation.>
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Polish Heritage Center Inc (Roadtrippers)
re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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In today’s edition of “all conservatives lie” comes an article from Wonkette.
Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed a couple of terrible bills on Saturday. The first will create a massive school voucher system, and the second is so truly crappy that no one is even talking about that.
Because the second bill Cox signed will outlaw life-saving gender-affirming care for trans youths.
While signing the bill, Governor Cox noted that it was a “terribly divisive issue” while adding that “experts, states and countries around the world are pausing these permanent and life-altering treatments.” The latter, of course, is explicitly untrue on a number of levels. Every possible relevant medical association has issued statements supporting gender-affirming care as the standard of care for trans youths — so no, “experts” are not pausing these treatments.
(more, followed by links to more than thirty relevant professional organisations that Gov. Cox lied about, but Lying for Jesus is required of conservatives).
Utah Gov. Bans Life-Saving Care For Trans Youth Upon Advice Of Non-Existent ‘Experts’ (yesterday)
Pompeo responds to criticism of his comments on Jamal Khashoggi by tweeting a photo of himself laughing with the man who murdered him (with the caption ‘good memories’).
He’s essentially mocking Jamal and his loved ones - all to sell his book. Truly vile. https://t.co/ovYZvV7ro9— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 28, 2023
re: #88 William Lewis
Here’s a thought…
Rick Blaine, of Casablanca, is a Neutral Good Paladin as D&D puts it. Law? Chaos? Who cares? Good? That’s all that really matters.
how can a paladin be neutral good in D&D?
It was only a matter of time before the GOP turned their attention to Canada.
we’re going to build a wall and Canada is going to pay for it pic.twitter.com/KhJJsC61t1
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 29, 2023
Dropped a deuce this morning.
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re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Over on the east side of the state, there are numerous Polish and Czech businesses.
Nebraska has the largest “Polish colony” (descendents of immigrants) of any state.
my family’s surname is spread all over the Midwest and West
re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
my family’s surname is spread all over the Midwest and West
“Smith?” /s
Fascism, flags, crosses, &c.
A North Dakota Republican has introduced a bill that would fine people and organizations $1,500 if they use a transgender person’s desired pronouns. https://t.co/b9KcK4NZNt
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) January 27, 2023
re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A North Dakota Republican has introduced a bill that would fine people and organizations $1,500 if they use a transgender person’s desired pronouns.
For people who throw fits about supposed violations of the First Amendment, they sure have no grasp of it
re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
For people who throw fits about supposed violations of the First Amendment, they sure have no grasp of it
They grasp it alright. They hate it.
re: #142 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
They grasp it alright. They hate it.
They hate it when it works against their interests.
Fast-food workers publicly praying for Donald Trump in politician’s political stop.
If I worked there, I’d be filing a complaint about creating a toxic workplace.
You can see the weave really well in this video. Also I don’t have the emotional fortitude for more of this.
pic.twitter.com/QqB2Qt4Pqk— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) January 29, 2023
re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Fast-food workers publicly praying for Donald Trump in politician’s political stop.
If I worked there, I’d be filing a complaint about creating a toxic workplace.
Is it a Schtick-Fil-A?
re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is it a Schtick-Fil-A?
It is apparently a Zesto’s in Atlanta.
When people talk about how Russian and Slavic-language names seem so long, one needs to keep in mind that all the -ovskis and -evskis, -inskis and -itskis at the end of a name are just adjectival or possesive endings, as “of/from so-and-so/such-and-such”
Hence:
Ivanovsky, from Ivan, is Jones or Johnson
Vysotskii from vysotá, hills or heights
Kuybischevski = from kúibische, a smithy
Vishnyevski = from vishnhyá, a cherry
Remember that western TV series, Alias Kuybischevski and Ivanovsky?
Churches continue to drive away young people. This doesn’t seem like a strategy to groom more people to become Christians.
First Baptist Church — a megachurch in Jacksonville, Florida — is forcing its members to sign a “Biblical Sexuality Agreement,” an anti-LGBTQ+ statement that denies the existence of trans people, opposes same-sex marriage, and calls same-sex intercourse ungodly.
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Canada should issue an arrest warrant for Tucker Carlson. The USA wouldn’t honour it, but other countries might.
Tucker Carlson: “We’re spending all this money to liberate Ukraine from the Russians, why are we not sending an armed force north to liberate Canada from Trudeau? And, I mean it.” pic.twitter.com/21NTd8C9GI
— Media Matters (@mmfa) January 26, 2023
re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Canada should issue an arrest warrant for Tucker Carlson. The USA wouldn’t honour it, but other countries might.
I don’t think it is illegal to advocate the overthrow of other governments, just your own…
Just like it was not illegal for Russians to interfere in US elections, it is only illegal for Americans to collude with them.
re: #149 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Churches continue to drive away young people. This doesn’t seem like a strategy to groom more people to become Christians.
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I have no problem with churches maintaining a strong anti-homosexuality stance. (“No problem” in the sense that it is their right to be anti-gay, not that I agree with such a stance.) The problem I have is when they advocate for the government to make it illegal to be gay, because as much as I love my religion, I do not want it to be the law of the land, it SHOULD NOT be the law of the land, and nobody else’s religion should be the law of the land either - most especially not the Christofascists’ White American Jesus religion.
re: #152 Dopamine Fish
I have no problem with churches maintaining a strong anti-homosexuality stance…The problem I have is when they advocate for the government to make it illegal to be gay,
If they do not want to recognize gay couples as being married in the eyes of the Lord, that is their right. But they have to recognize that such couples are nonetheless married in the eyes of the law, with all associated rights and obligations.
re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If they do not want to recognize gay couples as being married in the eyes of the Lord, that is their right. But they are nonetheless married in the eyes of the law, with all associated rights and obligations.
Until the Christian Supreme Court overturns Obergefell.
Texas standing by to lose their electricity.
WINTER STORM WARNING has been issued for all of North Texas. It goes into effect today at noon and lasts until 6am Wednesday. Rounds of freezing rain/drizzle and sleet will move across North Texas. Icy roads and travel most likely Tuesday. #wfaaweather pic.twitter.com/AlVS0iHSOa
— Pete Delkus (@wfaaweather) January 30, 2023
re: #155 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Until the Christian Supreme Court overturns Obergefell.
Which is on their agenda, along with Loving. Tacticians are trying to keep a lid on it, but it will come out soon enough in plain and clear language, which they will nonetheless duck and dissemble over…
This weekend, my church preached a sermon against the practices and beliefs of the New Age spiritualist movement. This is part of an existing sermon series contrasting other religions to Christianity, so it’s only a surprise in that “New Age spirituality’ is not an organized religion, and encompasses a wide array of beliefs. What was interesting about it was how carefully they approached the subject, because according to a Pew Research poll from 2018, 62% of Americans believe at least some New Age spiritualist palaver… including 61% of self-identified Christians. As opposed to sermons decrying the evils of homosexuality, or railing against “woke culture,” they were very explicit that we’re not supposed to be condemning of people who believe such things, simply “show them the truth in love.” Sure, but where is that philosophy when it comes to the “harder” sins? In my mind, all sinners should be treated equally - with love and respect, as people, since literally everybody is a sinner.
New Age is a subjective, arbitrary, wishy-washy, cafeteria self-serve approach to spirituality.
Sounds a bit like your church is more concerned with the potential competition for hearts and souls (and donations)
re: #160 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
New Age is a subjective, arbitrary, wishy-washy, cafeteria self-serve approach to spirituality.
Sounds a bit like your church is more concerned with the potential competition for hearts and souls (and donations)
Ehh, not really. They do pretty well for themselves. They have their own problems, but that ain’t one of ‘em.
re: #161 Dopamine Fish
Ehh, not really. They do pretty well for themselves. They have their own problems, but that ain’t one of ‘em.
Good to hear that. So what’s the issue with New Age? I see it as little more than an amorphous fad that really caught on at the turn of the 80’s and has been drifting in and out of fashion ever since.
re: #162 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Good to hear that. So what’s the issue with New Age? I see it as little more than an amorphous fad that really caught on at the turn of the 80’s and has been drifting in and out of fashion ever since.
They conflated parts of it with belief systems that are more properly independent religions in their own right (Wiccans, Satanists, etc.), which grated on me a little bit. But for the parts of it that were properly addressing New Age philosophy, it’s mostly that New Age is mostly centered on the self and on God being everywhere and in everything. They went in pretty hard on the “there is one God and one way to God” aspect in the sermon.
re: #163 Dopamine Fish
But for the parts of it that were properly addressing New Age philosophy, it’s mostly that New Age is mostly centered on the self and on God being everywhere and in everything.
And it is used by Gwyneth Paltrow to sell scented egg inserts…because God is everywhere, even up in there…
So there is only one Path to God, namely through Jesus, a path that was revealed to only a small portion of humanity starting 2,000 years ago and was not spread throughout the rest of the World until about 100 years ago?
I’s stick with the candles and woo-woo. that’s universal.
re: #156 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Texas standing by to lose their electricity.
We’re not really worried about that right now since it’s not the whole state.
re: #133 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It is ironic that radical Christians like Pompeo, while blanketing themselves with religious regalia, actually confirm and promote their abject nihilism every day.
re: #166 Florida Panhandler
It is ironic that radical Christians like Pompeo, while blanketing themselves with religious regalia, actually confirm and promote their abject nihilism every day.
The people for whom the deepest circles of Hell are reserved.
Good Monday morning.
In case you’re still wondering about the House GOP and Twitter, my Congressman is openly tweeting advocacy that all COVID vaccines should be removed, retweeting someone who says the vaccine is the “most failing product in history of medical products”. pic.twitter.com/F42WjbLRLI— Zandar vs. The House GOP Circus Of The Damned (@ZandarVTS) January 30, 2023
re: #168 Belafon
Well, for starters:
mitsloan:
Retsef Levi is the J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a member of the Operations Management Group at MIT Sloan and affiliated with the MIT Operations Research Center. Levi also serves as the Faculty Co-Director of the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO).
It appears that Professor Levi is schooled in operations management.
re: #159 Dopamine Fish
This weekend, my church preached a sermon against the practices and beliefs of the New Age spiritualist movement. This is part of an existing sermon series contrasting other religions to Christianity, so it’s only a surprise in that “New Age spirituality’ is not an organized religion, and encompasses a wide array of beliefs. What was interesting about it was how carefully they approached the subject, because according to a Pew Research poll from 2018, 62% of Americans believe at least some New Age spiritualist palaver… including 61% of self-identified Christians. As opposed to sermons decrying the evils of homosexuality, or railing against “woke culture,” they were very explicit that we’re not supposed to be condemning of people who believe such things, simply “show them the truth in love.” Sure, but where is that philosophy when it comes to the “harder” sins? In my mind, all sinners should be treated equally - with love and respect, as people, since literally everybody is a sinner.
The New Age movement is competition. You can’t have that.
And not everybody is a sinner: Only people who believe in such a concept as sin can be sinners. I do not believe in the idea of crimes against a god. Literally everyone is NOT a sinner.
Arguing there is such a thing as sin (and it isn’t any god who argues it, it is always a human who argues it) compels religious people to write their sins into law as crimes.
re: #168 Belafon
Was there not a private school in Florida that wanted to ban vaccinated teachers because they might give off “vaccine cooties” that could adversely affect students there?
re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Arguing there is such a thing as sin (and it isn’t any god who argues it, it is always a human who argues it) compels religious people to write their sins into law as crimes.
I can accept that none of us is perfect and that our personal morality (and our legislation) needs to take that into account.
The Calvinist Protestant view is that if we are not praying, working or resting after a hard day’s work, we are gettin’ ready to go out and sin because deep inside we are all a bunch of drinkin’, fightin’, thievein’ whorin’, lyin’, gamblin’ hell-raisers who can only be kept in check by a constricting moral corset.
Thanks Seattle Times for this list of people who made fun of Paul Pelosi. Hold them accountable: pic.twitter.com/XF4p24yX7G
— Adam Kinzinger #fella (@AdamKinzinger) January 27, 2023
re: #176 sagehen
Thanks Seattle Times for this list of people who made fun of Paul Pelosi. Hold them accountable:
To truly do so, you could publish their home addresses so we can go “visit” them…
(But OTOH that would be dragging ourselves down to their level)
re: #108 piratedan
it’s right up there Alan O’Day’s Undercover Angel, Debbie Boone’s You Light Up My Life, the Disco Bee Gee’s and almost anything done by Barry Manilow….
It’s not to say that the 70’s didn’t have some good stuff, after all, you had Badfinger, The Eagles, Raspberries, ELO, The Cars, Boston etc… but like every decade, there was some stuff out there and you wondered aloud, who the hell was buying this crap?
Two words.
Osmond Brothers.
Damn just saying that and I need an insulin shot.
re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Fast-food workers publicly praying for Donald Trump in politician’s political stop.
If I worked there, I’d be filing a complaint about creating a toxic workplace.
Did they chant “Let’s Go Brandon” as well?
re: #178 Joe Bacon
Two words.
Osmond Brothers.
Damn just saying that and I need an insulin shot.
Donnie and Marie
I’m preparing my taxes now, and I’m dealing with the fact that my refund is smaller than I’d hoped it would be because the fucking Republicans let the child tax credit expansion expire. I told Mrs. Fish about this and reminded her that this is why we can’t let Republicans take control of government - because they take money away from us middle-class people, and give it to their billionaire friends.
re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The Calvinist Protestant view is that if we are not praying, working or resting after a hard day’s work, we are gettin’ ready to go out and sin because deep inside we are all a bunch of drinkin’, fightin’, thievein’ whorin’, lyin’, gamblin’ hell-raisers who can only be kept in check by a constricting moral corset.
The more I learn about Christian denominations, the more grateful I am to have been born Jewish.
For the record, our God does not forbid drinking and gambling, we’re selective about when or if it’s okay to do fighting or whoring, thieving is forbidden and lying is a problem, but neither is a sin against God. It’s a sin against whoever you stole from or lied to or lied about. Hell-raising is a “huh? what?”, because we don’t believe in Hell.
(in fact, drinking is often required. And gambling is a children’s game to teach financial management, it’s done with chocolate coins. If you eat too many, you could get thrown out of the game when luck turns against you. But if you don’t eat any, then you’ve missed the whole point of why you wanted to be in the game to begin with.)
re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And cesium-137 is water soluble. Just to make the exercise even more exciting.
Well according to legal precedent one “attains their age” the day before their birthday. So I have “attained” the age where I have passed the 2/3 of a century mark…
re: #134 steve_davis
how can a paladin be neutral good in D&D?
Paladins, by definition, are lawful good. Get into WoW and Arthas, then the shit becomes more complicated.
re: #188 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Paladins, by definition, are lawful good. Get into WoW and Arthas, then the shit becomes more complicated.
There is only one real Paladin.
Lisa Loring was only two years older than I am. Y’all might not have to put up with me much longer. /s
re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Good luck finding this.
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The object is 6mm in diameter and 8mm thick.
Mining giant ‘sorry’ over lost radioactive capsule in Australia (BBC, half an hour ago)
Yeah, this is not quite like the radioactive incident in Goiânia, Brazil in 1987, where a radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital site. Four people, including a child, died, a good chunk of the city was examined for radioactivity. The problem became known when a woman (who later died of radiation poisoning) noticed people around her were getting sick, went and got all the radioactive stuff and transported it (and herself) to a hospital.
Moral: keep track of those tiny radioactive sources, you don’t know where they’re going to end up or who is going to pry into them.
re: #192 mmmirele
Yeah, this is not quite like the radioactive incident in Goiânia, Brazil in 1987, where a radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital site. Four people, including a child, died, a good chunk of the city was examined for radioactivity. The problem became known when a woman (who later died of radiation poisoning) noticed people around her were getting sick, went and got all the radioactive stuff and transported it (and herself) to a hospital.
Moral: keep track of those tiny radioactive sources, you don’t know where they’re going to end up or who is going to pry into them.
Some outdated radioactive medical equipment was ‘donated’ to Mexico in the 70s. iirc. From the US.
#NFLRigged trending on Twitter.
Apparently Bengals fans aren’t happy with some referee calls.
why the hell is “jesus christ is alive” trending
and if he’s here ask him what he thinks about trans people and let me know pic.twitter.com/GTm5rSsRgS— Weston/Wes (He/They) (@WitchWisent) January 30, 2023
re: #195 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
OK, let me just check real quick and see:
“Love your neighbor as yourself. And by ‘neighbor,’ I mean everybody. Love everybody, guys. It’s not that fucking hard.”
Seems simple enough to me.
re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Good luck finding this.
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The object is 6mm in diameter and 8mm thick.
Mining giant ‘sorry’ over lost radioactive capsule in Australia (BBC, half an hour ago)
re: #192 mmmirele
Yeah, this is not quite like the radioactive incident in Goiânia, Brazil in 1987, where a radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital site. Four people, including a child, died, a good chunk of the city was examined for radioactivity. The problem became known when a woman (who later died of radiation poisoning) noticed people around her were getting sick, went and got all the radioactive stuff and transported it (and herself) to a hospital.
Moral: keep track of those tiny radioactive sources, you don’t know where they’re going to end up or who is going to pry into them.
re: #193 wrenchwench
Some outdated radioactive medical equipment was ‘donated’ to Mexico in the 70s. iirc. From the US.
I’m just going to leave this here…
re: #194 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
#NFLRigged trending on Twitter.
Apparently Bengals fans aren’t happy with some referee calls.
The Bengals/Chiefs game was very good. It was an unfortunate call that gave the Chiefs field position to win it with a field goal. Really should have gone to overtime.
JAMES COMER: We’re investigating the Biden family for influence peddling
CNN’S PAMELA BROWN: But why not investigate the Trump family for the same?
COMER: We have no evidence
BROWN: What evidence do you have for Biden?
COMER: That’s what we’re investigating pic.twitter.com/NpvpD3MDx7— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 30, 2023
This year’s Super Bowl will feature two Black starting quarterbacks for the first time ever. pic.twitter.com/DcI2R3W3A9
— Front Office Sports (@FOS) January 30, 2023
re: #189 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Levi is the guy who co-authored a paper in Nature back in April, that claimed to show increased cardiac emergencies in young people correlated with COVID vaccination. That study (actually just a regression analysis using data from Israeli EMS) is under a lot of fire right now because its correlations haven’t shown up in any other vaccine study before or since.
Levi and the lead author, one Christopher Sun, are both MIT Operations Management professors, who specialize in food-safety supply chain logistics and healthcare management logistics. Their area of expertise maps better to optimizing vaccine rollouts than to gauging vaccine efficacy.
When the paper was published, Levi was still trying to keep a veneer of professional respectability and being careful in interviews to admit that correlation doesn’t imply causation. But since then, he seems to have turned defending his paper into a huge shoulder chip, and has partnered with the Epoch Times to spread antivax paranoia.
re: #182 sagehen
thieving is forbidden and lying is a problem, but neither is a sin against God. It’s a sin against whoever you stole from or lied to or lied about.
In other words, a civil offense vs a criminal offense
Me: OK. [*Checks budget line items*] “That saves about $48. Do you have thoughts on the Department of Defense?” https://t.co/SNLsrOTxka
— Joe Patrice (@JosephPatrice) January 30, 2023
re: #197 Teukka
I’m just going to leave this here…
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1963? A nick in the half life.
There’s radiation in the arroyos around Los Alamos (photo credit). They were afraid of dispersing it when they accidentally set the town on fire a few years ago (Forest Service did it, not the Department of Energy).
Ron Desantis’s Florida. https://t.co/nromBcQcc1
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) January 28, 2023
re: #77 Captain Ron
The piano intro and outro are something I have always enjoyed listening to. Thank you for posting!
re: #201 Dangerman
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In most places in the world, the people who are actively banning things are generally seen as “anti-freedom”. Somehow, these dangerous lunatics have convinced their idiot voters that the “woke left” wants to ban things, but somehow can’t, but never you mind that, you need to let us ban the things the “woke left” is for, because freedom?
re: #209 Dopamine Fish
In most places in the world, the people who are actively banning things are generally seen as “anti-freedom”. Somehow, these dangerous lunatics have convinced their idiot voters that the “woke left” wants to ban things, but somehow can’t, but never you mind that, you need to let us ban the things the “woke left” is for, because freedom?
“The woke left wants to ban us from banning people. We have to ban them first!”
re: #180 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Donnie and Marie
Say what you will about Imagine Dragons, at least they’re an improvement over the Mormon pop music of my daddy’s day. ;)
(Okay, my day if I’m honest. Egads, how can I be old?)
re: #210 Belafon
“The woke left wants to ban us from banning people. We have to ban them first!”
Well, they’re doing a good job of eliminating people by letting COVID run rampant through their states. It sounds like they may be well on their way to establishing bans on vaccinated people, which would turn them into literal viral breeding grounds.
re: #181 Dopamine Fish
I’m preparing my taxes now, and I’m dealing with the fact that my refund is smaller than I’d hoped it would be because the fucking Republicans let the child tax credit expansion expire. I told Mrs. Fish about this and reminded her that this is why we can’t let Republicans take control of government - because they take money away from us middle-class people, and give it to their billionaire friends.
I estimated taxes yesterday, had a capital gains from sale of family farmland in Arkansas (I got two laying hens and a milk cow) that had us trying to keep the rest of our retirement income in 2022 down. We will owe taxes to AL, AR and USA, but not enough to trigger a penalty.
It was one thing to find out that so many lizards were creationists. There were heated discussions, closed minds, much flouncing, a few bannings… quite a scene.
Now I find out there are lizards who like Wildfire, the song.
I just don’t know anymore…
Just checked my credit union account and my Federal refund has been deposited. I filed my taxes on the 21st…9 days later have the federal refund and the state accepted my return.
Thanks, Joe!
re: #213 BlueSpotinAL
I estimated taxes yesterday, had a capital gains from sale of family farmland in Arkansas (I got two laying hens and a milk cow) that had us trying to keep the rest of our retirement income in 2022 down. We will owe taxes to AL, AR and USA, but not enough to trigger a penalty.
I had what looks like a capital loss from sale of an employee stock option. I can’t finalize my tax returns until that 1099 comes in, which should be in two weeks. Everything else, I have the finalized documents already, and I will be receiving a slim refund from the USA and from MN, and a bigger refund in the form of a property tax refund from the state in the middle of the year. (Minnesota refunds partial property taxes if your Minnesota home is your primary residence, or “homestead”; however, property tax statements don’t come out until after the income tax filing deadline, so the filing for those refunds is off-cycle.)
re: #212 Dopamine Fish
I’m convinced Republicans did so poorly in the last midterms in part because so many of them died of covid. And the trend continues and may even be accelerating going into 2024.
This gives me no comfort. It’s a sign of dying society.
re: #190 Joe Bacon
There is only one real Paladin.
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i loved that show when I used to have Starz Western. I’ve forgotten a lot of his backstory, but I seem to recall he was a West Point graduate. Can’t remember if there was more to his hanging out in a San Francisco hotel, running interference for needy folks, other than his suffering from perpetual ennui, but somehow it all worked.
re: #206 wrenchwench
1963? A nick in the half life.
There’s radiation in the arroyos around Los Alamos (photo credit). They were afraid of dispersing it when they accidentally set the town on fire a few years ago (Forest Service did it, not the Department of Energy).
Nothing as nasty as a fresh 60Cobalt source. Best TL;DR I found on that one is “Chernobyl in a Tube”. Basically, 5 minutes at one yard off, you have a 50/50 chance of survival…
re: #219 Teukka
Nothing as nasty as a fresh 60Cobalt source. Best TL;DR I found on that one is “Chernobyl in a Tube”. Basically, 5 minutes at one yard off, you have a 50/50 chance of survival…
And yeah, LANL says in the source (See link below image) says that they’ll get it anywhere in the world if you find one…
re: #217 teleskiguy
I’m convinced Republicans did so poorly in the last midterms in part because so many of them died of covid. And the trend continues and may even be accelerating going into 2024.
This gives me no comfort. It’s a sign of dying society.
Covid plus the young people they’ve been pissing off are now of voting age.
re: #219 Teukka
Nothing as nasty as a fresh 60Cobalt source. Best TL;DR I found on that one is “Chernobyl in a Tube”. Basically, 5 minutes at one yard off, you have a 50/50 chance of survival…
Yikes is insufficient.
re: #221 Belafon
Covid plus the young people they’ve been pissing off are now of voting age.
They also pissed off a ton of women by killing Roe.
The next time Covid mutates, we should call it
The Oh-MAGA variant— Ski the Madman, Pro-choice, Anti-fascist (@SeveralMadmen) January 30, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: Marilyn Manson allegedly groomed and sexually assaulted a minor multiple times in the 1990s, according to a new lawsuit. The woman is suing him for sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. https://t.co/aiqIYMkoct
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) January 30, 2023
re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg
They also pissed off a ton of women by killing Roe.
But not the white women, apparently, though it remains to be seen how many of those have been indoctrinated into the cult of White Republican Jesus and how many are voting Republican under threat of violence from white Republican men.
re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth
Me: OK. [*Checks budget line items*] “That saves about $48. Do you have thoughts on the Department of Defense?”
They also want to cut “woke” DoD programs, like those pursuing alternative energy, and programs promoting families and LGBTQ service people.
In other words, chain our military to outdated technology while lowering already flagging recruitment levels.
When fully one third of the adult population of a world power are batshit bug-eyed conspiracy loons armed to the teeth ready to kill anything that moves on the order of a failed TV game show host you’ve got a dying society.
There’s hope still. But the batshittery has been so unrelenting, and it’s accelerating.
re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg
They also pissed off a ton of women by killing Roe.
and nearly every class of school students who grew up after Sandy Hook
re: #219 Teukka
Nothing as nasty as a fresh 60Cobalt source. Best TL;DR I found on that one is “Chernobyl in a Tube”. Basically, 5 minutes at one yard off, you have a 50/50 chance of survival…
Ahh, I remember the talk of “Cobalt Bombs,” the original “dirty bomb”. Vicious monsters we humans are.
re: #228 teleskiguy
When fully one third of the adult population of a world power are batshit bug-eyed conspiracy loons armed to the teeth ready to kill anything that moves on the order of a failed TV game show host you’ve got a dying society.
There’s hope still. But the batshittery has been so unrelenting, and it’s accelerating.
and they will grow more violent
re: #231 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and they will grow more violent
That’s what I’m afraid of.
re: #222 wrenchwench
Yikes is insufficient.
Gamma radiation is the big bad of ionizing radiation. It does less damage to biological tissue than the equivalent dose of alpha or beta radiation; but alpha radiation is so heavy that it can be stopped very easily, and beta radiation can be dealt with using relatively lightweight construction. Stopping gamma rays from blasting everything in the room requires a metric shit ton of lead or concrete.
re: #194 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Both teams had bad penalties that benefited them.
re: #219 Teukka
Nothing as nasty as a fresh 60Cobalt source. Best TL;DR I found on that one is “Chernobyl in a Tube”. Basically, 5 minutes at one yard off, you have a 50/50 chance of survival…
Cs-137 has a half-life 6 times greater than Co-60, it’s only 1/2 the energy output (~0.6 MeV vs ~1.2 MeV) but, half-life… is readily dispensable in air, and it’s water soluble. There is a reason the there is shift to using Co-60 over Cs-137. It is less dangerous.
With all the radiation floating around in this thread I think a warning is in order.
There is a risk of myocarditis but it is less than the risk of myocarditis from a Covid infection in an unvaccinated person. Cherry picking data is your favorite technique and it speaks to your lack of intellectual integrity.
— Dana Johnson (@DAJ1960) January 30, 2023
re: #238 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #238 Backwoods_Sleuth
Rare is unit of measure when defined. Just because massie doesn’t know what it means in public heath terns doesn’t mean it is undefined. /100k (reactions, often) or /10^6 (normal cancer) depending on the health concern.
re: #193 wrenchwench
Some outdated radioactive medical equipment was ‘donated’ to Mexico in the 70s. iirc. From the US.
I remember the story and had some personal involvement with it. None other than Methodist Hospital (now Covenant Medical Center) in Lubbock sold a radio-cobalt machine to a clinic in Mexico. The clinic went broke and the cobalt source ended up in a junkyard. From there it found its way into a batch of steel that was made into structural girders. All this came to light only because a truckload of these girders was sold to a contractor in Albuquerque. The driver delivering them got lost and pulled into the first likely place he could see to ask directions. It turned out to be the main gate at the Sandia National laboratory. Their numerous radiation detectors went crazy and the alarm reached all the way to the White House. It took several years and quite a few millions of dollars to track down the contaminated steel. The truck was parked behind an earthen berm in an isolated area of the lab property. It is still there and still hot.
re: #238 Backwoods_Sleuth
Irresponsible Thomas Massie wants idiots to be afraid of life-saving vaccines. He’s clearly a sociopath just like Tucker Carlson.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) January 30, 2023
DeSantis appointee to New College board floats “terminating all contracts for faculty, staff and administration” and rehiring those who “fit in the new financial and business model.” He also wants to shakeup leadership & remove Herald-Tribune from meetinghttps://t.co/ttvh3XFBPz
— Zac Anderson (@zacjanderson) January 30, 2023
re: #241 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I remember the story and had some personal involvement with it. None other than Methodist Hospital (now Covenant Medical Center) in Lubbock sold a radio-cobalt machine to a clinic in Mexico. The clinic went broke and the cobalt source ended up in a junkyard. From there it found its way into a batch of steel that was made into structural girders. All this came to light only because a truckload of these girders was sold to a contractor in Albuquerque. The driver delivering them got lost and pulled into the first likely place he could see to ask directions. It turned out to be the main gate at the Sandia National laboratory. Their numerous radiation detectors went crazy and the alarm reached all the way to the White House. It took several years and quite a few millions of dollars to track down the contaminated steel. The truck was parked behind an earthen berm in an isolated area of the lab property. It is still there and still hot.
I remember when some of that was showing up in Arizona as well.
Andalé, andalé! A rebar! A rebar!
re: #238 Backwoods_Sleuth
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What an ignorant c*nt. “Rare” is used on a near daily basis as a medical semantic term as well as in just about every package insert I have ever read. This c*nt should visit a tumor board some day in his pathetic life.
re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth
DeSantis appointee to New College board floats “terminating all contracts for faculty, staff and administration” and rehiring those who “fit in the new financial and business model.” He also wants to shakeup leadership & remove Herald-Tribune from meeting
Because education is another fungible commodity to be sold to the highest bidder. Like health care, clean water and breathable air…
re: #245 Dr. Matt
What an ignorant c*nt. “Rare” is used on a near daily basis as a medical semantic term as well as in just about every package insert I have ever read. This c*nt should visit a tumor board some day in his pathetic life.
“Warming” has a specific scientific meaning, too.
LGBTQ people face being ‘erased’ in Michigan schools thanks to right-wing group’s legal loophole
A right-wing group thinks it has hit upon a legal loophole that it can use to force Michigan public schools to “erase” any sign of openly LGBTQ people from classrooms, reported Judd Legum for his Popular Information blog on Monday.
“The effort, organized by the Great Schools Initiative (GSI), seeks to exploit a Michigan statute that allows parents to opt their children out of sex education,” reported Legum. “Michigan law allows schools to offer courses in sex education. The nature of this instruction is quite traditional” — stressing the benefits of abstinence alongside the other course information — “Nevertheless, the law also allows students or parents to request to be excused from sex education classes. Schools must grant any such request ‘without penalty or loss of academic credit.’”
GSI, however, wants to take the language of this law and use it to allow parents to “opt out” students not just from courses on sex education, but on any incidental appearance of LGBTQ identity anywhere in the school — even something as simple as a teacher wearing a Pride pin.
Hurry up, there, goddammit! pic.twitter.com/nuPJlp7NEx
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) January 30, 2023
re: #248 Joe Bacon
GSI, however, wants to take the language of this law and use it to allow parents to “opt out” students not just from courses on sex education, but on any incidental appearance of LGBTQ identity anywhere in the school — even something as simple as a teacher wearing a Pride pin.
Because sex and sexual identity is everywhere.
Etymologically, the ‘un’ in UNLESS is not the prefix ‘un–’, but the word ‘on’. Originally, UNLESS was a phrase, ‘on less than…’, used in Middle English to introduce a lesser exception to an earlier statement—roughly akin to something like, ‘except in the less likely case that…’
— Haggard Hawks 🦅📚 Words | Language | Etymology (@HaggardHawks) January 30, 2023
re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth
terminating all contracts for faculty, staff, and administration
Tenure be damned, if you don’t toe the State’s new lines opposing the “woke Left”, we’ll find that you aren’t a financial or business fit for our institution.
re: #248 Joe Bacon
LGBTQ people face being ‘erased’ in Michigan schools thanks to right-wing group’s legal loophole
A right-wing group thinks it has hit upon a legal loophole that it can use to force Michigan public schools to “erase” any sign of openly LGBTQ people from classrooms, reported Judd Legum for his Popular Information blog on Monday.
“The effort, organized by the Great Schools Initiative (GSI), seeks to exploit a Michigan statute that allows parents to opt their children out of sex education,” reported Legum. “Michigan law allows schools to offer courses in sex education. The nature of this instruction is quite traditional” — stressing the benefits of abstinence alongside the other course information — “Nevertheless, the law also allows students or parents to request to be excused from sex education classes. Schools must grant any such request ‘without penalty or loss of academic credit.’”
GSI, however, wants to take the language of this law and use it to allow parents to “opt out” students not just from courses on sex education, but on any incidental appearance of LGBTQ identity anywhere in the school — even something as simple as a teacher wearing a Pride pin.
“Fine. Your student isn’t allowed to be in any class with any gay or trans children.”
Imagine if this reporter had treated this as a shocking admission of coordination instead of holy cow you met Elon Musk that’s so cool. https://t.co/Nuf491mrAM
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) January 30, 2023
re: #241 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I remember the story and had some personal involvement with it. None other than Methodist Hospital (now Covenant Medical Center) in Lubbock sold a radio-cobalt machine to a clinic in Mexico. The clinic went broke and the cobalt source ended up in a junkyard. From there it found its way into a batch of steel that was made into structural girders. All this came to light only because a truckload of these girders was sold to a contractor in Albuquerque. The driver delivering them got lost and pulled into the first likely place he could see to ask directions. It turned out to be the main gate at the Sandia National laboratory. Their numerous radiation detectors went crazy and the alarm reached all the way to the White House. It took several years and quite a few millions of dollars to track down the contaminated steel. The truck was parked behind an earthen berm in an isolated area of the lab property. It is still there and still hot.
That’s much better than anything I could have found to see if IRC. TYVM.
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
For a second, I misread that as “the most intelligent person I’ve ever had a conversation with,” and I was like, well, I guess Comer does talk to an awful lot of Republicans, so the bar is probably pretty damn low.
The thing is, the “influence peddling” investigation is going to stick to Biden in a way it never did with Trump.
re: #253 Belafon
“Fine. You’re student isn’t allowed to be in any class with any gay or trans children.”
Yeah, except that’s what they want. If the straight white Christian kids end up being the ones kicked out, they’ll sue and get to be put into private schools at the state’s expense. Taxpayer-funded indoctrination.
re: #230 Wile E. Wonka
“If you take, say, fifty H-bombs in the hundred megaton range and jacket them with Cobalt-Thorium G, when they are exploded they will produce a doomsday shroud. A lethal cloud of radioactivity which will encircle the earth for ninety-three years!”
re: #258 Dopamine Fish
Yeah, except that’s what they want. If the straight white Christian kids end up being the ones kicked out, they’ll sue and get to be put into private schools at the state’s expense. Taxpayer-funded indoctrination.
Except they don’t have to be kicked out. They just get moved to a different room.
re: #257 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The thing is, the “influence peddling” investigation is going to stick to Biden in a way it never did with Trump.
It will stick because the Presstitutes will make it stick.
OI, WHICH ONE OF YOU LAYABOUTS GOT US RECORDED?!?!?
And it’s still only January. pic.twitter.com/aOYE8L3LgL
— TG (@TG22110) January 29, 2023
“Today, we’re going to learn the non-gay version of calculus. Please look through your Bible and find what it says about the integral of the sin function. Let me know when you have found it.”
re: #237 darthstar
With all the radiation floating around in this thread I think a warning is in order.
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re: #218 steve_davis
i loved that show when I used to have Starz Western. I’ve forgotten a lot of his backstory, but I seem to recall he was a West Point graduate. Can’t remember if there was more to his hanging out in a San Francisco hotel, running interference for needy folks, other than his suffering from perpetual ennui, but somehow it all worked.
Didn’t have a guy who loaded his ammo with silver bullets?
re: #261 Joe Bacon
It will stick because the Presstitutes will make it stick.
Well, they seem to be having trouble getting the documents issue to stick, no matter how much they try.
re: #266 Belafon
Well, they seem to be having trouble getting the documents issue to stick, no matter how much they try.
The appearance of classified documents at Mike Pence’s home complicated matters. It became a lot more difficult to both-sides the issue when there were two clearly comparable cases (Biden, Pence) and one clear outlier (Trump).
re: #237 darthstar
With all the radiation floating around in this thread I think a warning is in order.
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re: #218 steve_davis
i loved that show when I used to have Starz Western. I’ve forgotten a lot of his backstory, but I seem to recall he was a West Point graduate. Can’t remember if there was more to his hanging out in a San Francisco hotel, running interference for needy folks, other than his suffering from perpetual ennui, but somehow it all worked.
I remember the ending of each episode and loved that song.
Yet another Republican pleading guilty to an election felony
NEWS: An ally of Mark Meadows has been charged with a felony campaign finance violation, according to new court papers.
Meadows and Trump endorsed Lynda Bennett to succeed Meadows in the House before she lost to Madison Cawthorn.
w/ @joshgerstein https://t.co/t64x5CBmSU— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) January 30, 2023
re: #217 teleskiguy
I’m convinced Republicans did so poorly in the last midterms in part because so many of them died of covid. And the trend continues and may even be accelerating going into 2024.
This gives me no comfort. It’s a sign of dying society.
I disagree. It’s a sign of parts of society are dying because they’re stupid, gullible, conspiratorial or bits of one, two, or all three. I see this as a self-cleansing evolutionary event.
Republicans (right wingers globally) are killing each other. Purposely. It’s politically assisted suicide. It’s the culmination of decades of lies, deceit and stupidity. And with each death our collective IQ increases. We’re watching evolution in real time.
What is a sign of a dying society is they’re allowed to continue. And for that, I don’t know the cure (a workable cure).
re: #265 jeffreyw
Didn’t have a guy who loaded his ammo with silver bullets?
The Lone Ranger had a horse named Silver and a dog named Bullet.
For your own sake, please call @MarkRuffalo and beg him to help you understand how celebrities can be outspoken critics of corporate America, Big Pharma, and even Pfizer specifically without playing into antivax propaganda.
— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) January 29, 2023
re: #123 TarHellion
Nice birbie to start the week. [snip]
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Roughly 30,000 ZLINE gas ranges sold at stores like Best Buy, Lowe’s, and The Home Depot have now been recalled after dozens of reports of carbon monoxide emission, the CPSC said. https://t.co/8XCxwSYXYi
— Fox5NY (@fox5ny) January 30, 2023
Senior Republican devils like Cheeto, DeSantis and Massie don’t seem concerned at all that their propaganda is killing off their own supporters in wholesale lots. They also show no concern about alienating whole voting blocs like the young, independent women and (increasingly) the non-senile elderly. I think this is because they, and their backers, do not see votes and the democratic process as the real road to power. Instead they will rely on voter suppression, gerrymandering and (inevitably) on the threat of violence and authoritarian law enforcement.
re: #189 Colère Tueur de Lapin
And not so much virology.
Probably schooled in Tucker Carlson virology..
This whole thread on policing. Of note: if a police chief or politician says that they’re going to sit down with the community and work on solutions, it’s all more likely that they weren’t listening before, and weren’t implementing the plans they previously put in place. Also, cops with seniority tend to get plum assignments, and lower ranking (younger) cops are on duty when they need more supervision and this leads to problems as younger cops are more likely to end up in these situations than older cops (not always - as some older cops impart the wrong lessons on peers).
Some observations from 23 years of working on police misconduct (since LAPD Rampart):
1. Beatings after someone runs from police or shootings at point where runner could get away is a thing. /1— Walter Katz (@w_katz1) January 30, 2023
re: #278 lawhawk
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re: #278 lawhawk
“Why won’t Lieberals just let us die?”
MAGA lost another one:
Bobby Hull was a Hitler loving Nazi sympathizer. https://t.co/bZwmBbXFZy
— Nancy Levine Stearns (@nancylevine) January 30, 2023
re: #284 Belafon
“Why won’t Lieberals just let us die?”
we are fine with that, the issue is all the people you are gonna take down with you…
re: #278 lawhawk
Roughly 30,000 ZLINE gas ranges sold at stores like Best Buy, Lowe’s, and The Home Depot have now been recalled after dozens of reports of carbon monoxide emission, the CPSC said
Fox: Were these ranges sabotaged by liberals?
re: #278 lawhawk
Always curious. CPSC is a precautionary priciples agency. I am curious what their dangerous levels are compared to EPA and OSHA”s limits. See, lawn darts. A total total clusterfuck of a risk assessment.
EPA’s National Ambient Air Quality Standards is 9 ppm CO in air, resulting in the inhalation of 52 mg CO in 8 hours. The OSHA Permissible Exposure Limit is 50 ppm in air, resulting in the inhalation of 290 mg CO in 8 hours.
What was the zline oven emitting?
re: #288 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Per zline:
ZLINE has received 44 reports of carbon monoxide emission, including 3 reports of consumers seeking medical attention.
How the anti-abortion movement learned to stop worrying and love punishing women for having sex
Anti-abortionists have always had a weak spot. It was enveiled as long as Roe was in place. Now that Roe is gone, that vulnerability is coming into view. It’s pretty much what you’d expect it to be. Yes, I’m talking about sex.
Anti-abortionism is, at its root, about making the beast with two backs. It’s not that sex is bad. If you’re a man, it might be bad, or good. It depends on your age, your rank in society, your money and influence, and so on. It is not about morality, since, as a man, morality is mostly what you say it is.
It’s not that sex is bad for women. That depends, too. If it’s inside iron gripped and aggressively enforced social boundaries, it’s probably good, “morally” speaking. But it’s probably bad, sexually speaking, on account of it being inside iron gripped and aggressively enforced social boundaries.
What’s certain is that anti-abortionism is, at its root, not about “the sanctity of life,” “fetal personhood” or some made-up thing. It is what conservative protestant white men have always said it was: a means of controlling women, a quasi-legal set of bylaws that punish disobedience of conservative protestant white men but reward submission to them.
re: #226 Dopamine Fish
But not the white women, apparently, though it remains to be seen how many of those have been indoctrinated into the cult of White Republican Jesus and how many are voting Republican under threat of violence from white Republican men.
The white women who support the GOP are just as racist as the white men. Racism is more important to them than bodily autonomy.
re: #214 wrenchwench
It was one thing to find out that so many lizards were creationists. There were heated discussions, closed minds, much flouncing, a few bannings… quite a scene.
Now I find out there are lizards who like Wildfire, the song.
I just don’t know anymore…
(don’t mention the pizza thing…)
re: #289 lawhawk
Right, all within a meaningless statistical error of people being told to panic. And to suggest that maybe this is a panic and not reality. The people seeking medical attention. That would mean that those ovens are cranking out 1000s ppm / hour to cause symptoms in a human. The LD50 for a 30-min exposure to CO in a rat is around 1200 ppm. 280g ready vs. 60kg person. I don’t buy it being real.
re: #293 Dangerman
(don’t mention the pizza thing…)
You mean that Pineapple Pizza > New York Style > Chicago Deep Dish > Detroit Style?
re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth
good luck unilaterally ‘terminating’ all contracts
DeSantis appointee to New College board floats “terminating all contracts for faculty, staff and administration” and rehiring those who “fit in the new financial and business model.” He also wants to shakeup leadership & remove Herald-Tribune from meetinghttps://t.co/ttvh3XFBPz
— Zac Anderson (@zacjanderson) January 30, 2023
re: #214 wrenchwench
It was one thing to find out that so many lizards were creationists. There were heated discussions, closed minds, much flouncing, a few bannings… quite a scene.
Now I find out there are lizards who like Wildfire, the song.
I just don’t know anymore…
I recently bought America’s Greatest Hits on vinyl. Judge me as you will (but know that I do at least skip over Muskrat Love.)
re: #296 Dangerman
good luck unilaterally ‘terminating’ all contracts
So, right-whingers don’t believe in contact law?
re: #285 Dr. Matt
Never knew that. There are racist pricks in every sport, but that comes as news to me.
Philly Flyers had a Pride night a week or so ago. They’ve had them for a few years, and I think it’s a nice gesture.
So the Flyers warmup jerseys were black with rainbow numbers and nameplate.
Ivan Provorov refused to take part in warmups in the jersey.
When asked about it he stated he had nothing to say except he was Russian Orthodox and it was against his “church”.
Which is the same one that supports Vlad Putin murdering Ukrainians.
Some fucking god.
They also picked up Tony DeAngelo, who by all accounts is a dick, who was let go by the NY Rangers and Carolina Hurricane.
Flyers organization is a joke.
Play in the Wells Fargo Center, famous predator bank, and owned by Comcast, everyone’s favorite tech company.
Been my team since they entered the league, but I’m having issues.
And the New York Rags did this….
Quite damning actions.
re: #262 Dopamine Fish
OI, WHICH ONE OF YOU LAYABOUTS GOT US RECORDED?!?!?
Saw this in Nashville pic.twitter.com/034WaMTSO6
— Joelyn (@JoKitz119) January 29, 2023
re: #297 ipsos
I recently bought America’s Greatest Hits on vinyl. Judge me as you will (but know that I do at least skip over Muskrat Love.)
“Seasons in the Sun”?
re: #297 ipsos
I recently bought America’s Greatest Hits on vinyl. Judge me as you will (but know that I do at least skip over Muskrat Love.)
Remember when Queen Elizabeth was on a State Visit with Ford and during the state Dinner the Captain and Tenille sang “Muskrat Love” and the Queen winced.
I couldn’t blame her!
“Vaccines cause blood clots”
And yet, antivaxers aren’t concerned with COVID-19 induced blood clotting.
The rate of clotting from COVID-19 is substantially higher than that of vaccination.
Explain antivaxers….https://t.co/bZRHAV9gZt pic.twitter.com/PkU87J1wlI— Dr.Ian Copeland (PhD) (@IanCopeland5) January 28, 2023
re: #285 Dr. Matt
MAGA lost another one:
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The thread included claims that Bobby Hull never actually made the statements attributed to him; it’s not uncommon for someone’s remarks to be misrepresented or misquoted, unless the information is confirmed by a reliable reporter.
re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth
Fuck’s sake. Our OpSec is getting sloppy. Somebody must be sunning themselves on a rock somewhere.
re: #304 Backwoods_Sleuth
“I’m not going to catch Covid, so why would I want to have blood clots.”
Ah, so the white supremacists are going with the “my family was in this country longer so that makes us Real Muricans (tm) and you’re not” approach. So, sir, uhhh… I hate to break it to you, but…
1. Yes it does - the United States does not draw a distinctions between citizens based on the length their family has been here or between naturalized and native born citizens.
2. I believe these folks would like to have a talk with Johnny here https://t.co/0SL2slssUL pic.twitter.com/LN9VOq9EZY— Dan (Mastodon: izzod@izzodlaw.com) (@Eodyne1) January 30, 2023
re: #305 Hecuba’s daughter
I’d be happy for that to be a mistake. He was one hell of a hockey player and his son was too.
re: #310 darthstar
Granted, if our Oathkeepers and Proud Bois want to go experience the receiving end of HIMARS o’clock, more power to them.
re: #291 Joe Bacon
What’s certain is that anti-abortionism is, at its root, not about “the sanctity of life,” “fetal personhood” or some made-up thing. It is what conservative protestant white men have always said it was: a means of controlling women, a quasi-legal set of bylaws that punish disobedience of conservative protestant white men but reward submission to them.
when you get to the root of these “Fundamentalist”, “traditional” or “family” values, it means that women are the property of their fathers (or male head of the family) until they marry, at which point they become property of their husbands.
re: #292 Hecuba’s daughter
The white women who support the GOP are just as racist as the white men. Racism is more important to them than bodily autonomy.
…nor do they mind being property. they all see themselves as Park Place and Boardwalk
re: #297 ipsos
I recently bought America’s Greatest Hits on vinyl. Judge me as you will (but know that I do at least skip over Muskrat Love.)
My God, I hade forgotten about how bad The Captain and Tenile were you mentioned that water rodent song
re: #313 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
…nor do they mind being property. they all see themselves as Park Place and Boardwalk
Or they are Kim Davis types brainwashed by their Pulpit Pimp just like my sisters were.
re: #300 nines09
Never knew that. There are racist pricks in every sport, but that comes as news to me.
Ice Hockey is the whitest of all American sports after polo.
It’s gonna be fun when all those NDA’s start coming undone in light of illegal activities.
re: #316 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And that does not make it racist. It’s also an expensive sport for equipment and not many schools offer the sport.
Basketball can be played in the street with a milk crate as a hoop.
Soccer just needs anything shaped like a ball.
Baseball and football are subsidized at youth level.
re: #298 Colère Tueur de Lapin
So, right-whingers don’t believe in contact law?
They don’t believe in any law save law of the jungle. Which they believe they are well equipped for.
But since most of them are as dumb as a bag of hammers and full of hubris they are kidding themselves.
re: #298 Colère Tueur de Lapin
So, right-whingers don’t believe in contact law?
tfg definitely doesnt
he uses any means to avoid paying on a contract - it’s a tactic
sue, argue, dispute anything and everything.
totaly ignores his signature on the paper and that his signature represents an agreement and a promise
musk is doing the same thing
You can’t sustain this, America
You have a traitor terrorist problem
Trump is dividing and conquering you pic.twitter.com/AYqKXDwxMP— Luke Zaleski (@ZaleskiLuke) January 30, 2023
This is Malu. She had to get some shots at the vet today. Was a little nervous, but she brought her Bravery Bear, and he made everything okay. 14/10 we’re so proud of her pic.twitter.com/ampiognvn3
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) January 30, 2023
The worst, absolute #1 WORST SONG I have ever heard, is the Kid Rock/Sheryl Crow duet “I Put Your Picture Away” or as they sing it “Ah Putchur Pitcher Aywayy”
ABSOLUTE WORST.
re: #325 The Pie Overlord!
The worst, absolute #1 WORST SONG I have ever heard, is the Kid Rock/Sheryl Crow duet “I Put Your Picture Away” or as they sing it “Ah Putchur Pitcher Aywayy”
ABSOLUTE WORST.
Oh God, I forgot all about that song until you mentioned it. WHYYYY.
Says the career politician. pic.twitter.com/sJlSzvgwvX
— Jax Persists (@LadyJayPersists) January 30, 2023
BREAKING: The Manhattan DA will present the hush money payment case to a grand jury for indictment. Two of the witnesses? DAVID PECKER and DYLAN HOWARD from the The National Enquirer. https://t.co/XuS1oYcZVc
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) January 30, 2023
OH GD MAKE IT STOP.
Edit: put behind a tag to prevent unintentional projectile vomiting
Cupid Corn Must Be Stopped https://t.co/Jq3ztQzfjT pic.twitter.com/6qSF0MML3b
— The Takeout (@thetakeout) January 30, 2023
Spare. It’s a bowling analogy instead of a golf analogy.
Wordle 590 5/6*
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The bowling analogy does not work. Gutter ball for the first line. That works.
re: #319 nines09
And that does not make it racist. It’s also an expensive sport for equipment and not many schools offer the sport.
Of course, and needless to say, there aren’t many frozen ponds for kids to play on in the South.
Here is an old-fashioned Anti-Semite using woke language to justify murdering Jews.
What you’re looking at is a justification for murdering civilians draped in the language of liberation following the murder of Israeli Jews outside of a synagogue last week.
Put differently: some people saw Jews get murdered and said “more please.” pic.twitter.com/3n88kl4rJM— Alex גדעון בן װעלװל (@JewishWonk) January 30, 2023
re: #325 The Pie Overlord!
The worst, absolute #1 WORST SONG I have ever heard, is the Kid Rock/Sheryl Crow duet “I Put Your Picture Away” or as they sing it “Ah Putchur Pitcher Aywayy”
ABSOLUTE WORST.
actually, I find that one of his better songs.
(only in a relative sense)
Rare ‘mother of pearl’ clouds spotted over Scotland https://t.co/4NwGHp8Cpy
— The Guardian (@guardian) January 30, 2023
My pic from Sunday over Gight, Scotland. pic.twitter.com/8tA0AGtWc6
— Clochandichter (@Clochandichter) January 30, 2023
Trump on Desantis: “Ron would’ve not been governor if it wasn’t for me. Number 1, he wouldn’t have gotten the nomination, and number 2 - he wouldn’t have beaten his Democrat opponent. So then when I hear he might run, I consider that very disloyal.” pic.twitter.com/11r2k3b6z0
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) January 29, 2023
a bunch of loony birds
🚨 UPDATE: Officer Preston Hemphill has been “RELIEVED OF DUTY” the day after his name was discovered on the Internet. He tased Tyre Nichols and wanted him “stomped”) https://t.co/InV4NvHZOj pic.twitter.com/LRpmGKE5EA
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) January 30, 2023
no charges for the white cop, yet
The coming debt-ceiling crisis is another iteration of the J6 insurrection, perpetrated by the same pitchforks-and-torches lynch mob with the same goal of destroying the gov’t, and for basically the same reasons, but attempted by a different mechanism.
— Jay Bookman (@jaysbookman) January 27, 2023
re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Canada should issue an arrest warrant for Tucker Carlson. The USA wouldn’t honour it, but other countries might.
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Maybe Tucker could mobilize his thug anti-maskers together with the Meal Team Six militia, and the NRA partizan forces to invade Canada. The 1866 and 1870-71 Fenian Raids into Canada might be instructive.
The Fenian raids were a series of incursions carried out by the Fenian Brotherhood, an Irish republican organization based in the United States, on military fortifications, customs posts and other targets in Canada (then part of British North America) in 1866, and again from 1870 to 1871. A number of separate incursions by the Fenian Brotherhood into Canada were undertaken to bring pressure on the British government to withdraw from Ireland, although none of these raids achieved their aims.
The raids led to a number of armed clashes but did nothing for the cause of Irish independence. They did, however, harden support for Confederation in Canada, a very big deal in Canadian history, essentially marking its emergence as an independent country.
The Fenian militia gangs generally performed poorly, even though many of them were hardened veterans of the Civil War while most Canadian troops were barely trained local militia. By the numbers, 35 Canadians were killed or died of wounds, 53 suffered non-lethal wounds and 54 were captured (though soon released). The Fenians lost 24 dead and 48 wounded. 59 Fenians were captured, not counting those rounded up and thrown in jail by US authorities, notably Buffalo New York sheriff (and future President) Grover Cleveland.
re: #323 Dr. Matt
I have. And I celebrate it in the same way I do when the code I write compiles the first time.
If this is true, and Canadians are surging the border, let’s teach them a lesson and send back Ted Cruz. https://t.co/0JXnmB5EUR
— Marmel (@Marmel) January 30, 2023
Behold the pretzel. https://t.co/RaYMQM71b4
— Marmel (@Marmel) January 30, 2023
re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth
Consent to sex is not consent to pregnancy?
If I go to a casino and bet on roulette, but it doesn’t land on my number, I lose my chips. I can’t say “now that I’ve seen the outcome, I withdraw consent.” You don’t get to withdraw consent from effects of an action you consented to!
What is this person getting at?
If you are adult and properly educated on possible outcomes and possible measures you can undertake to influence those outcomes, then consent to sex is in fact consent to the potential outcome of pregnancy.
re: #242 Crush White Nationalism
It’s like these people have never paid attention to drug commercials on TV. Many of them have possible side effects, with death being one for many drugs.
Florida House Speaker @Paul_Renner is rolling out the GOP plan to push permit-less carry in the upcoming legislative session.
Speaker Renner says legislation will remove the “government permission slip” to gun rights.
More details soon. pic.twitter.com/bLwQkU3l0i— Jason Delgado (@byJasonDelgado) January 30, 2023
re: #343 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Consent to sex is not consent to pregnancy?
If I go to a casino and bet on roulette, but it doesn’t land on my number, I lose my chips. I can’t say “now that I’ve seen the outcome, I withdraw consent.” You don’t get to withdraw consent from effects of an action you consented to!What is this person getting at?
If you are adult and properly educated on possible outcomes and possible measures you can undertake to influence those outcomes, then consent to sex is in fact consent to the potential outcome of pregnancy.
But not to the outcome of that pregnancy. Fertility is no longer destiny.
re: #344 Eventual Carrion
It’s like these people have never paid attention to drug commercials on TV. Many of them have possible side effects, with death being one for many drugs.
Republicans don’t seem to pay attention to anything in the real world. Their lives are all about their feelings and their deranged conspiracy theories that make them feel important.
re: #347 Crush White Nationalism
Republicans don’t seem to pay attention to anything in the real world. Their lives are all about their feelings and their deranged conspiracy theories that make them feel important.
We now live in a weird new Media Reality where it is accepted that since everybody lies, why not just be the one who tells the most outrageous and bald-faced lies? It seems to work,
re: #345 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Floriduh is absolutely the last state that should be making it easier to buy and carry.
re: #332 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There aren’t many frozen ponds in central PA anymore. I used to have my skates, gloves and stick with a few pucks in my car. There was two clay lined ponds they flooded here.
Hasn’t been cold enough to skate for 3 out of 5 years average.
And…
Remember you pay to go ice skating at an a rink. Throw in skate rental. And getting to the rink.
rtre: #349 Dr. Matt
Floriduh is absolutely the last state that should be making it easier to buy and carry.
It’s the place that has the highest probability of a Florida man trying to eat your face. You have to be able to defend against Florida man.
re: #303 Joe Bacon
Remember when Queen Elizabeth was on a State Visit with Ford and during the state Dinner the Captain and Tenille sang “Muskrat Love” and the Queen winced.
I couldn’t blame her!
I have always despised Ford for his pardon of Nixon but, up until now, I never knew he’d invited the Captain and Tenille to a state dinner for the Queen. It says a lot for the Bit’s sense of forbearing to not immediately declare war but it drops Ford a couple of notches in my eye.
re: #333 The Pie Overlord!
Here is an old-fashioned Anti-Semite using woke language to justify murdering Jews.
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re: #302 Barefoot Grin
“Seasons in the Sun”?
I’ll see your Terry Jacks and raise you Paul Anka’s You’re Having My Baby.
re: #355 sizzzzlerz
I’ll see your Terry Jacks and raise you Paul Anka’s You’re Having My Baby.
I can’t ever think of that song without thinking of the WKRP in Cincinnati pilot:
re: #327 Dr. Matt
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